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As US investors leverage investor-state dispute settlement and US Code section 301 against South Korea following the 2025 ...

Demographer Stuart Gietel-Basten tells The Conversation Weekly podcast why South Korea’s birth rate is climbing, and what that means for the future.

South Korea has relaunched a fact-finding commission into its past human rights violations, with a key focus on the extensive fraud and malfeasance that corrupted the ...

The number of recipients of the national pension program is likely to surpass 8 million this year, the National Pension Service said (NPS) ...

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Vietnam is facing a demographic crisis as birth rates drop below replacement levels. Alex Hoang explores the government's sudden shift from birth limits to incentives like Decree 207/2025, which ...

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Japan recorded 705,809 births last year, including foreign residents, the lowest total since national records began in 1899, according to data said ...

After three long years of waiting, the World Baseball Classic is finally back. Actually, finally back. Pre-tournament ...

The government budget per person aged 65 and older has been found to be four times that of the youth aged 19–34. The gap between the younger generation, representing the future, and older generations ...

In Poland, vasectomy is becoming an increasingly popular method of permanent contraception among men. In contrast, female ...